David S. Meyer Department of Sociology University of California-Irvine Irvine, California 92697-5100 (949) 824-1475; Fax: (949) 824-7637 email: [email protected] EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1988, Political Science (American Politics; Comparative Politics), Boston University. M.A. 1984, Political Science (Political Theory; American Politics), Boston University. B.A. 1980, Hampshire College, Concentration: Literature and Social Theory. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Faculty Positions: University of California-Irvine, Professor (2004- ) Associate Professor (1999-2004) Department of Sociology (1999- ) Department of Political Science (2002- ) Department of Planning, Policy, and Design (2004- ) CUNY, City College of New York and Graduate Center, Department of Political Science Associate Professor (1997-1999) Assistant Professor (1994-1996) Director, Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy (1998-1999) University of Michigan, Department of Political Science Assistant Professor (Visiting) (1993-1994) Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy Assistant Professor (Visiting) (1988-1993) Harvard University Extension School, Department of Government Adjunct Professor (1989-1993) PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. DSM, Valerie Jenness, and Helen Ingram, eds. Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy in America, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. DSM, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, eds., Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. DSM and Sidney Tarrow, eds., The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. David S. Meyer, page 2 Thomas R. Rochon and DSM, eds., Coalitions and Political Movements: The Lessons of the Nuclear Freeze, Boulder: Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. A Winter of Discontent: The Nuclear Freeze and American Politics, New York: Praeger, 1990. * Nominated Best Book in Collective Behavior/Social Movements, 1989-90 (American Sociological Association). Articles and Chapters: Vincent G. Boudreau and DSM, “Comparative Politics Approaches Social Movements,” forthcoming in Todd Landman and Neil Robinson, eds., Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong and DSM, “Protest and Political Incorporation: Vietnamese-American Protests in Orange County, 1975-2001.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, forthcoming 3 (2008) 1: 78-107. DSM and Lindsey Lupo, “Assessing the Politics of Protest: Political Science and the Study of Social Movements,” in Bert Klandermans and Conny Roggeband eds., Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines, New York: Springer, 2007, pp. 111-156. Kelsy Kretschmer and DSM, “Platform Leadership: Cultivating Support for a Public Profile,” American Behavioral Scientist 50 (June 2007) 10: 1395-1412. DSM and Steven A. Boutcher, “Signals and Spillover: Brown v. Board of Education and Other Social Movements,” Perspectives on Politics 5 (March 2007) 1: 81-93. “Building Social Movements,” in Lisa Dilling and Susi Moser, eds., Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate ChangenFacilitating Social Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 451-461. “Political Opportunities,”in George Ritzer, ed., Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007, pp. 3447-3450. DSM and Kelsy Kretschmer, “Social Movements,” in Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, eds., The Handbook of 21st Century Sociology, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2007, pp. 540-548. “Claiming Credit: Stories of Movement Influence as Outcomes,” Mobilization 11 (October 2006) 3: 201- 218. DSM and Catherine Corrigall-Brown, “Coalitions and Political Context: U.S. Movements against Wars in Iraq,” Mobilization 10 (October 2005) 3: 327-344. “Scholarship that Might Matter,” in David Croteau, Bill Hoynes, and Charlotte Ryan, eds., Rhyming Hope and History: Activism and Social Movement Scholarship. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, pp. 191-205. “Transnational Peace Activism: The Prospects for Cooperation after the War,” in Matthew Evangelista and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, eds., Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations after Iraq, Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2005, pp. 275-298. David S. Meyer, page 3 “Social Movements and Public Policy: Eggs, Chicken, and Theory,”in DSM, Valerie Jenness, and Helen Ingram, eds. Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy in America, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-26. Valerie Jenness, DSM, and Helen Ingram, “Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy: Rethinking the Nexus,” in DSM, Valerie Jenness, and Helen Ingram, eds. Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy in America, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 288-306. Deana Rohlinger and DSM, “Framing Abortion Globally: Transnational Framing of Access to Abortion in the United States, England, and Ireland,” in Lee Ann Banaszak, ed., U.S. Women' s Movement in a Dynamic and Global Perspective, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, pp. 197-214. “Protest and Political Opportunity,” Annual Review of Sociology 30 (2004) 125-145. DSM and Debra C. Minkoff, “Conceptualizing Political Opportunity,” Social Forces 82 (June 2004) 4: 1457-1492. * Best article, American Sociological Association, Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Sam Marullo and DSM, “Anti-War and Peace Movements,” in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, London: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 641-665. “How Social Movements Matter,” Contexts 2 (2003) 4: 30-35. * Reprinted in Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, eds. The Contexts Reader, New York: W.W. Norton, 2008, pp. 421-426. “Political Opportunity and Nested Institutions,” Social Movement Studies, 2 (2003) 1: 17-35. “Restating the Woman Question: Women’s Movements and State Changes,” in Lee Ann Banszak, Karen Beckwith, and Dieter Rucht, eds., Women’s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 275-294. “The Smothering Embrace,” in Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 260-627. *Excerpted from A Winter of Discontent: The Nuclear Freeze and American Politics. “Opportunities and Identities: Bridge-building in the Study of Social Movements,” in DSM, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, eds., Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 3-21. “Civil Disobedience,” in Paul Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker, eds., Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 60-64. “Protest and Political Process,” in Kate Nash and Alan Scott, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 164-172. “Social Movements: Creating Communities of Change,” in Mary Ann Tetreault and Robin L. Teske, eds., Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community, and Power, Vol. I: Conscious Acts and the Politics of Social Change, University of South Carolina Press, 2000, pp. 35-55. David S. Meyer, page 4 Traci M. Sawyers and DSM, "Missed Opportunities: Social Movement Abeyance and Public Policy," Social Problems 46 (1999) 2: 187-206. “Tending the Vineyard: Cultivating Political Process Theory,” Sociological Forum 14 (March 1999) 1: 79-92. * Reprinted in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, eds. Rethinking Social Movements, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, pp. 47-60. “How the Cold War Was Really Won: The Effects of the Antinuclear Movements of the 1980s,” in Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, eds., How Social Movements Matter, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 182-203. “Civil Disobedience and Protest Cycles,” in Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, eds., Waves of Protest Social Movements Since the 1960s, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, pp. 267-276. Janet C. Gornick and DSM, “Changing Political Opportunity: The Anti-Rape Movement and Public Policy,” Journal of Policy History 10 (1998) 4: 367-398. DSM and Suzanne Staggenborg, “Countermovement Dynamics in Federal Systems: A Comparison of Abortion Politics in Canada and the United States,” Research in Political Sociology 8 (1998): 209-240. DSM and Sidney R. Tarrow, “A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century,” in Meyer and Tarrow, eds., The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, pp. 1-28. DSM and Thomas R. Rochon, “Toward a Coalitional Theory of Social and Political Movements,” in Rochon and Meyer, eds., Coalitions and Political Movements: The Lessons of the Nuclear Freeze, Boulder: Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997, pp. 237-252. Thomas R. Rochon and DSM, “Introduction: The Nuclear Freeze in Theory and Action,” in Rochon and Meyer, eds., Coalitions and Political Movements: The Lessons of the Nuclear Freeze, Boulder: Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997, pp. 1-21. "Nuclear Weapons Opposition," in Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele, eds., Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women’s Suffrage. New York: Garland Publishers, 1997, pp. 377-384. DSM and Suzanne Staggenborg, "Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity," American Journal of Sociology 101 (May 1996) 6: 1628-1660. William A. Gamson and DSM, "Framing Political Opportunity," in Doug McAdam,